The year-on-year change rate of the new housing construction costs index, in the Mainland, was 0.2% in December, up by 0.1 percentage points from the rate observed in November. The price index of regular maintenance and repair of housing, in December, maintained the same year-on-year change rate observed in November (0.0%).
The annual average growth rate of the new housing construction cost index was 0.3% in 2015 (0.5% in the previous year) while the Housing Regular Maintenance and Repair Price Index presented a null growth rate in 2015 (-0.6% in 2014).